Should Governor Nikki Haley take down the Confederate flag that is near her South Carolina office? |
I think Governor Nikki Haley should remove the Confederate flag near her office because having it there is pandering and insensitive.
The Confederate flag was a symbol of a country that no longer exists and of a time that was brutal and devastating for the United States. To continue to fly this flag in a public governmental office is in poor taste and shows a certain lack of maturity, in my opinion. Private ownership of the flag is one thing, but Nikki Haley is the governor of all the people of her state.
Posted by: SuddenRashad84Are you the governor of
a state in the United States or the Confederacy?
Posted by: AlwaysMoreThanYouI agree that Governor Nikki Haley should take down the Confederate flag near her office, because we are no longer a nation divided.
Nikki Haley is not representing her country well by having the Confederate flag near her South Carolina office. This country is no longer divided into North and South, and she is living in the past by hanging that thing up. It is disloyal to our country and she should be forced to take it down.
Posted by: AnnoyedDong77
Google the 1st ammendment
Freedom of speech extends even to stupid opinions.
Posted by: socialpinkoNo
Whitewashing history isn't a good strategy to begin with, and the battle flag of the confederacy is one of the few tangible links left to a very important, for better or worse, part of southern regional history. There are plenty of families in the south who had relatives who fought and died in the name of the uprising and they maintain this pride. Completely independent of the connotations of racial injustice and slavery.
Posted by: AnonymousNot at all, she should move it back to the top of the capitol building.
It takes a position of uneducated ignorance to think the confederate flag is racist. Lots of dumb white men used the flag as a rallying point after the war while committing racist acts. The reality is that Lincoln created a grossly overpowerful federal government and raped the constitution and at one time in our history, men had the guts to stand up to a tyrant and protect this country's honor... Unfortunately, they lost. You have Lincoln's Whig politics to thank for earned income tax, obamacare, foreign aid, section 8 and lots of other things that are none of the feds damn business. Pick up some primary sources, study the "American System" and Whig politics and you'll agree, THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT.
Posted by: AnonymousI think the meaning of the Confederate flag has been unfairly generalized as a sign of racism when, in fact, it has a much more complicated cultural significance to southern states and, for that reason, I believe Governor Haley has a right to fly the flag
So long as the citizens of South Carolina still support the flying of the flag, I believe that the state should still be allowed to fly the Confederate flag as a show of deeper cultural beliefs, so long as the United States flag and official state flag are also represented.
Posted by: ToughEfrain26